Teach the Future

Teach the Future is an initiative to introduce futures thinking in schools around the world. We teach a lot about the past, which we should, but students are going to live in the future. Shouldn't we help them prepare for that future by telling them what might lie ahead? We prepare students for field trips by telling them where they are going and what they are likely to experience. Shouldn't we do the same about the biggest field trip of their lives, into their future.

We know how to teach the future. We have been doing it at the University of Houston for 40 years now, but that was for graduate students. We should include high school and college students in the discussion. It's their future more than ours...